Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. FORBESThe truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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